TY - BOOK AU - Merleau-Ponty,Maurice AU - Lefort,Claude AU - Darmaillacq,Dominique AU - Ménasé,Stéphanie AU - Lawlor,Leonard AU - Massey,Heath AU - Merleau-Ponty,Maurice AU - Merleau-Ponty,Maurice TI - Institution and passivity: course notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955) T2 - Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy SN - 9780810126893 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - B 2430 M564i 2010 U1 - 194 PY - 2010/// CY - Evanston, Illinois PB - Northwestern University Press KW - Phenomenology KW - Fenomenología KW - Ontology KW - Ontología KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Filosofía KW - Historia N1 - "Originally published in French as L'Institution-La Passivité: Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954-1955) (Paris: Editions Belin, 2003)."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Institution in personal and public history. Introduction -- Institution and life -- Institution of a feeling -- The institution of a work of art -- Institution of a domain of knowledge -- The field of culture -- Historical institution: particularity and universality -- Summary for Thursday's course: institution in personal and public history -- The problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory. Philosophy and the phenomenon of passivity -- For an ontology of the perceived world -- Sleep -- Perceptual consciousness and imagining consciousness -- Symbolism -- Dreams -- The Freudian unconscious -- Delusions: gradiva -- The case of Dora -- The problem of memory -- Appendix: three notes on the Freudian unconscious -- Summary for Monday's course: the problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory N2 - Institution and Passivity is a collection of course notes taken from classes Maurice Merleau‑Ponty taught at the Collège de France in 1954‑1955. This work is philosophically significant as a transitional text in Merleau‑Ponty’s thought, filling in ideas between his earlier works and later works such as The Visible and the Invisible and Signs ER -